The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-17
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| THE Western WdtchmGR Roman Catholic
journal of st. Louis, is responsible for the state
| ment that there is not one negro wo1shipper il
| all the eighty Protestant churches of st. Louis
! MRS. ANNIE MAUP1N, of Gasconade county,
Mo-, is welI-prcserved woman, She is IS years
| old, can walk two miles at a stretch, and
seventy-two grandchildren rise up and call bel
| blessed.
| THIRTEEN UNDERTAKERs were on the train o.
thirteen ears that formed the St. Louis express
| that had a smash-up on the New York Contra
railroad at Spuyten Duyvel IN. Y } last week
| but there was only one man injured. and he not
seriously.
SOME Pennsylvania men have started couple
of skunk ranches, one at Little Corners and the
| other at Miller's Station. Good skunkskins sell
readily at 81 apiece, and the idea is to keep the
market well supplied with the black and white
pelts without breaking down the price.
A LARGE MAsrIFF tried to pull from the rails
an elderly unknown woman he was accompany
! ing. some days ago, as she walked on the track
of the Concord and Portsmouth, n. H., railroad.
The engineer of an approaching train saw this
quite distinctly and whistled repeatedly. The
engine struck and instantly killed the woman,
and after the accident the dog howled piteously,
and refused TO leave the body.
WHEN Capt. Thomas Phelan, of Kansas City,
Mo-, was stabbed in ODonovan Rossa's office, in
New York two years ago, he had an accident
policy for $1,000 in the Travellers Insurance
Company The company refused to pay the
| money on the ground that Phelan had provoked
the assault by going to Rossa's Office. Phelan
sued the company, and was on Saturday award
ed Judgment for the full amount.
THE other day letter came to the North
Adams (Mass.) post office, addressed as follows:
ITO the State of Massachusetts, where North
Adams nestles mid the hills peaceful and fair,
hare NJ in no N nm ~
and key until -- calls and asks Is there
any mail for me?'" All over the face of the
letter was written the words rats and chest
| nuts" inscribed by the different mailing-clerks
through whose hands the letter had passed
THERE is a community of Finlanders in Klika-
most industrious folk When there is
new addition to the community
from Finland the settlers gather together, and
in few days build house and fence a farm for
him. There is no season in which they are idle.
During the run of salmon they work at the
cannerieS and fish wheels When winter comes
they are in the timber, cutting rails, posts and
fuel.
IT is the custom among the poorer classes in
Panama to hire collins to transport their dead
to the grave, after which the body is deposited
in the earth and the coffin brought back with
the nlourners. The following is the form of a
Panama undertakers advertisement: From
liShment at the following rates: So, s., S15 and
$40. Coffin will be sold at lowest possible rates.
Collins hired ont for ONE DOLLAR including
bench on which to carry deceased to the grave. "
The Courier-Journdl, of Louisville, de-
scribing thunder storm at Hopkinsville, KY,
says that while the storm was raging there were
incessant volleys of thunder and flashes of
lightning. A horse, without saddle or bride,
gGlloped down the street. A dazzling blaze and
deafening clap occurred simultaneously The
flying steed seemed TO stand in halo of flames,
and both shoes weres wrenched off and hurled
through the air likey-hiazng Goals The morse
galloped away and the. shoes were picked up un-
| injured. on =,
WILLIAM Oakley induced Lois Fritz of Erie,
Ill., to elope with hinl.i They tried to get mar
riage license at Morrison, but failed because
Lois was but II years old. Then they went to
| Fulton, and there license was refused They
started for another town, but Just about this
| time the angry father overlook the young
| couple. The would-be bride promptly threw
her arms around his neck and pleaded her
cause so well that the old gentleman not only
| forgave her, but helped them to get license
and a preacher to tie the knot.
w. j. FLORENCE, the comedian, in letter to
a Louisville subject, wrote this suggestion: One
gallon of whisky costs about So and contains
about sixty-fve 15c drinks Now, if you must
drink, buy gallon and make your wife the bar
keeper. When you are dry give her 15c. for q
drink, and, when the whisky is gone, she will
have, after paying for it, So as left, and every
gallon thereafter will yield the same profit,
This money she should put away, so that, when
you have become an inebrate, unable to sup
port yourself and stunned by every respectable
man, your wife may have money enough to keep
you until your time comes TO fill a drunkard' s
grave
| ALFRED MoTTE, an inhabitant of Roubaix,
France, who died recently, made peculiar pro-
vision in his will. He bequeathed the sum of
| 425, coo francs to the municipality, though the
| benefits are not to be realized yet The name of
| the benefactor is to be immortaliZed A century
| hence, as clause in the will directs that the
| legacy is to be invested in rentes and accumu-
late till 1887, at compound interest Whether or
not Roubaix will continue to be the flourishing
manufacturing city it is fast becoming, NJ.
| Notes foresight will have produced 10000 900
| francs, which sum is to be spent in constructing
| suitable dwellings for the artisan and working
| classes.
SAYS a st. Louis bookseller: There is a
mania abroad for Western Americana and I
have line of customers who purchase only
such works. feel safe when l have a 'Rey-
nolds' Illinois, Hunts Mormon War; Lewis
and C!arke's Travels, or a last volume of the
| Western Journal and Civilian an old publca-
! ton, now very rare. Two that are eagerly
| sought for are Mormon Bible and The EX-
empts of 81. Louis, or the parties who claimed
| foreign protection during the war; many OF
| whom, by the way, have since become citizens
voters and offceholders. Most of the other
| books sent to a secondhand dealer are rubbish
that only an accident will sell y
BEER" said Bismarck not long ago in the
! Reichstag, sis, comparatively speaking, the
| beverage Of well-to-do class; but spirit is the
drink of the famous poor man. and spirit is
| thus a drink which the aborer cannot ALWAYS
| dispense with Beer makes one lazy instead Of
| exciting the nerves. II has. moreover q draw.
| back from the economic StanGpoint-it is time
! killer. With us Germans perhaps nothing kills
! time so much as beer drinking. Spirit has in nc
way this effect, and if you let the workinemau
choose between vine. beer and spirit he will ra
| ject wine have never found that the Iaborer
| when he found his work hard refreshed himself
| with Bavarian beer. The poor man needs spirit
certainly to a moderate extent, but still n
small quantity daily for nournishment."
AN early friend of the Hon. Allen G. Thur
man recalls that the Ohio statesmans father.
Pleasant Thurman. was a carpenter of shftless
habits, but of a religious turn of mind Now
and then he preached, and in old-fashioned
Methodist ''revivals' he was a great sbout4r
Allen was slender tow-headed boy pale and
delicate, and quiet in habits. He was not noted
for brlliancy, but was careful and industrious.
Before he was admitted to the bar he was a sad
der and while working at that trade he met n
Miss McAtthur daughter of a man of wealth
and social rank. He asked the privilege of es
cortng her home from the gathering where thew
first met, but she rather haughtily refused him
not wishing 10 associate with "a mere nlechan.
ic." But she afterward changed her mind aud
became Mrs. Thurman.